OP ART CIRCLES
Grade:
secondary school
Age:
13+
Subject:
Art History
Submitted by:
Sylvia T. Durso, an art educator at Taylor Career Center in Beaumont, Texas.
Objectives:
Students will learn how to create optical art - art that seems to move when you look at it.
What You Need:
- compass
- protractor
- paper
- pencil
- ruler
- pen and ink
- colored markers
What You Do:
- Find the center of the page and put the pointed end of the compass there.
- Draw the largest circle the paper will allow with the compass.
- Draw several circles inside the big circle.
- Create distortions by drawing at least three circles close together. Have at least three distortions in the picture.
- Use the protractor to mark off each half and whole degree. Mark all the way around the circle by turning the protractor upside down.
- Draw lines using pencil and ruler from the center through the mark and out to the last circle.
- Fill in the blocks created with pen and ink in checker board fashion.
- Color in white sections in a contrasting color, or leave white.
Recommended Books:
Graphic and Op-Art Mazes
by: Dave Phillips
Resources:
Op Art 101
A brief look at Op Art
Biography:
Sylvia T. Durso is a high school art teacher and a special education teacher. She is very interested in design - especially connecting math and art.
